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[Victoria Watcher]

Yes, no concept of reality in a piece like this. It’s just a press release for all involved. They don’t even define what a “home” means, whether it’s a studio condo or a four bedroom 2.5 floor house.

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Sounds like the “average” home perhaps.

[Mike K.]

What’s an average home? These variables are never defined.

Can we get an expert to weigh in? Maybe the house hunt guy can provide some data?

[Victoria Watcher]

~ 900 kWH per month.

[Mike K.]

Thanks to the failure of alternative energy promises, Ontario taxpayers are subsidizing $6 billion in electricity costs via the government, because costs are out of reach for so many.

- https://www.cbc.ca/n...rices-1.6780846

The absurdity of it all:

Ford's PCs blame the size of the spending on green energy contracts signed by Liberal governments that locked the province into paying wind- and solar-power producers above-market prices for generating electricity.

The electricity cost-relief budget is now more than the combined budgets of the ministries of economic development, environment, agriculture, northern development, mining, natural resources, forestry, Indigenous affairs and labour, training and skills development.

The Ford government has spent more taxpayer money subsidizing hydro bills than it has spent on long-term care. In the four budgets since 2019, a cumulative total of $23.6 billion has been devoted to electricity cost relief programs, $2 billion more than budgeted for long-term care in the same time period.

[Victoria Watcher]

The absurd part is the opposition asking the money to be spent on other projects instead of just taxing everyone less.

And the outcry about $600 million going to the top 20%.

[Victoria Watcher]

Stepping up his pleas for action on fossil fuels, Guterres not only called for "no new coal" but also for eliminating its use in rich countries by 2030 and poor countries by 2040. He urged carbon-free electricity generation in the developed world by 2035, meaning no gas-fired power plants, either.


https://www.cbc.ca/n...eport-1.6784346

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 March 2023 - 07:57 AM.